Trevena, Inc. Appoints Barry Shin as Chief Financial Officer
June 27, 2019 at 07:00 am EDT
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Trevena, Inc. announced the appointment of Barry Shin as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Shin comes to the company with over 17 years of investment banking and corporate advisory experience, focused in the biopharmaceuticals sector. Mr. Shin joins Trevena with extensive experience advising biopharmaceutical companies through merger and acquisition (M&A) and financing transactions. He was previously Managing Director in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Mizuho Securities. Prior to joining Mizuho Securities, he was a Managing Director in Guggenheim Securities’ Healthcare Investment Banking Group from 2012 to 2017. From 2005 to 2012, he served in positions of increasing responsibility within the Healthcare Investment Banking Group of Piper Jaffray. From 2001 to 2005, he advised healthcare and technology companies in financing and M&A transactions as a corporate attorney.
Trevena, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines for patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders. The Company has one approved product in the United States, OLINVYK (oliceridine) injection, indicated in adults for the management of acute pain severe enough to require an intravenous opioid analgesic and for whom alternative treatments are inadequate. The Companyâs pipeline includes three differentiated investigational drug candidates: TRV045 for diabetic neuropathic pain and epilepsy, TRV250 for the acute treatment of migraine and TRV734 for maintenance treatment of opioid use disorder. TRV045 is a novel, highly selective sphingosine-1-phosphate subtype 1 (S1P1) receptor modulator being developed as a potential treatment for acute and chronic neuropathic pain secondary to diabetic peripheral neuropathy. TRV734 is a small molecule G-protein biased ligand of the mu opioid receptor (MOR).
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